Tragically, Hiroshima A Fading Memory

Letter to the editor

Sixty-nine years after the monumentally tragic event, I saw no mention of its occurrence in The Courant until this morning [Aug. 7, news, "Remembering Hiroshima"]. A small paragraph with an accompanying photo depicting two children with the atomic bomb dome in the background gave all too brief testimony to the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Whether it was something that had to be done for the sake of mankind or a thoroughly capricious act to demonstrate to the rest of the world our newfound might continues to be debated. But we shouldn't allow that memory and its impact on history to fade away.